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Film · Metro · 1924

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The Navigator

51Watch it awake.

Two people who never had to work a boat are left to keep an empty liner alive.

The review

This one earned the hour better than louder titles from the same stretch of years. A rich man and the woman who refused him end up alone on a drifting liner and have to make it run. Buster Keaton, a solid comic hit. Kids included. The boat is the work they never had to do. The gags are the survival.

I kept picturing how lost they'd be in our kitchen, never mind a ship with no crew. They have to run a boat built for many more people. That pleasure doesn't need a speech stapled on. If the children watch, ask what they'd do if a thing they owned suddenly needed real work from them.

Journal

Keep The Navigator in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch

63 instead of 51

Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch is still a comedy film, and it scores 63 instead of 51. What you gain is household: Sisters, and a creature who has become a brother.

The eight

8
Industry
A drifting liner will not run itself, and two rich idlers have to learn.
5
Household
She refused him, and the ship throws the pair together without making a family.
3
Piety
Nobody is asked to repent; the ocean only asks whether the boat will run.
5
Courage
Adrift with no crew, they face a helplessness their money had always hidden.
2
Republic
Two passengers and a hull, with no neighbor, law, or town in reach.
7
Temperance
Ease is useless on the empty ship, and staying alive puts that idleness down.
5
Truth
She had refused him already, and the boat will not pretend they know the work.
6
Stewardship
They must keep afloat a liner they never staffed, which is all they have left.

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Film · Prime Video · 2001

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Barbie in the Nutcracker

51Watch it awake.

A small courage story inside a toy commercial. The courage is real enough for a child.

The review

Clara is told she is only a girl, and the plot contradicts the aunt without turning Clara into a brand ambassador for defiance. She is kind to a toy, steady in a strange country, and willing to be the one who moves when the mice have the room. The Nutcracker is a prince who needs help. That order is fine.

It is also a doll's film, and the last frame is a product. Do not pretend otherwise. The middle is still a usable picture of a girl who acts. Put it on for a young child. Do not build a theology out of it.

Journal

Keep Barbie in the Nutcracker in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Republic are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Room on the Broom

66 instead of 51

Room on the Broom is still a family film, and it scores 66 instead of 51. What you gain is industry: The broom is a tool.